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AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Tony’s first RFC landed in AWS’s OpenSearch migration project, a few people inside AWS asked, “Who’s this guy?” The first AWS maintainer he spoke with saw the value add Google Cloud support, and next, build the Terraform solution their customers want. AWS got what its customers asked for. Aiven customers benefited with being able to choose and so did anyone running OpenSearch on Google Cloud, even self-managed or with another vendor.

For years Aiven has been an incredibly easy way to deploy your favorite open source databases... Now we're working to make it easier to deploy Apps too! Chapters AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Open source models are closing in on the frontier. But is running them the same as being sovereign? David Sullivan explains why true sovereignty means owning the whole model lifecycle, and why that's where prototypes stall before production. James Faure shows how distilling small, task-specific models can slash costs. Dr Rosemary Francis argues it's ridiculous to use the most expensive model for every task, and that your harness and engineering process matter more than which model sits at the top of the leaderboard.

Aiven Senior Solutions Architect Tony Piazza joined the company in March. Within months he had merged five PRs adding Google Cloud support and Terraform-based provisioning to the OpenSearch Migration Assistant, a tool that previously only worked on AWS. Tony talks with Jay Miller about: Why he went from consulting to open source contribution. How a consultant’s habit of finding project risks early shaped the work. His first conference keynote at OpenSearchCon. What contributing as a vendor-neutral company looks like. Where he’s contributing next, including ML Commons, Data Prepper and the docs.